NRL: Bulldogs look to overcome grand final wobbles

The Bulldogs advanced to the grand final after easing by the Rabbitohs on Saturday. Photo / Getty Images

They are the minor premiers and may even start favourites on Sunday, but Canterbury will need to overcome a horror grand final record among their playing group to cap the year with a premiership.

With the vast majority of their lineup preparing for their first NRL grand final, the Bulldogs have just one legitimate title winner on the books - bench forward David Stagg who won with Brisbane in 2006.

Starting prop Aiden Tolman triumphed in 2009 but had that title stripped, the same as the bulk of his opponents this weekend, for salary cap breaches at Melbourne.

England international James Graham won a Super League title with St Helens in 2006 - before starting a staggering streak that saw him involved in five losing grand finals.

The same goes for mid-season buys Krisnan Inu, who has only lost one match since arriving at Belmore in May, and Sam Perrett.

Inu featured in deciders in 2009 at Parramatta and last year at the Warriors, finishing the loser on both occasions, while Perrett's Sydney Roosters were blown off the park by St George Illawarra in 2010 in his only grand final.